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Hell, he needed to get in touch with police Captain Antonio Young. Tony would have his back. He always did. Tony knew the score and how to keep the peace.
Most days.
“I don’t know.” Her whisper came softly to his ears and only his enhanced hearing let him catch the words. But it didn’t take enhanced senses to know she was lying.
Fifteen more minutes until they were at Night Watch. Fifteen more minutes and he’d be there…
But a cop had just tried to kill him. A cop who hadn’t cared about his position as a bounty hunter with Night Watch.
He glanced in the side mirror. No sign of the patrol car following them. The road branched up ahead. One side would take him back to the city. The other would lead him down a longer, curving path that wound back to the swamp.
His hesitation lasted for only a few seconds. Then he headed toward the swamp.
“Zane?” Her hold on him tightened. The lady must have studied the area pretty well before coming to set up shop in the city. Figured. “Where are we going?”
He heard the faint hope in her words. Did she think he was going to let her go? Just walk away?
Let her.
His fingers clenched around the handlebars. “Got to make a phone call,” he growled back. His phone had burned in the flames, so he’d have to find another one.
He’d planned to just drive back in to Night Watch, but now, no, now he was gonna check in first. Just to make sure there weren’t any more surprises waiting for him.
Surprises like a cop who’d been ready to blow his head off and steal his bounty.
* * *
Her hands were shaking. Jana balled her fingers into fists and stared at the faded exterior walls of the gas station. Zane had purchased a burner phone inside. The woman behind the counter had only appeared mildly curious about the handcuffs. Jana had gotten the feeling the woman saw plenty of shocking things and didn’t really care much anymore.
Now he was calling his boss. Probably arranging her pickup. And that was fine. She’d be better off once she was away from Zane.
But he’d covered her body with his. When that cop had been bearing down on them with that gun, Zane had protected her.
Freaking good-guy routine. Why’d he have to do that? Why’d he have to keep acting like she mattered?
A killer. That’s all she was to him. She needed to remember that. Hell, he probably would have jumped in front of any bounty that had been threatened. No matter what the crime, you had to protect the cash cow, right?
“Something’s wrong with this case,” Zane’s hard voice broke through her thoughts, and she knew he’d made contact with Night Watch. She glanced at him and saw that his brows were drawn low, and his jaw flexed with anger.
“Yeah, yeah, I’ve got her.” His gaze slashed up to meet hers. Hot. She swallowed. That green gaze seemed to burn with intensity.
And she did like the fire.
Jana licked her lips. His gaze dropped and lingered on her mouth.
“She’s not the problem.”
Uh, okay. Now her eyes narrowed.
“I’ve got her under control,” he said.
Oh, did he?
“It’s the assholes after her that I’m having trouble with. Shit, yeah, I know what happened to my ’Vette—I was there.”
Jana almost winced. Okay. Sure, she’d been the one to torch his car, but there hadn’t been a lot of choice there. The car had already been smashed, anyway. Not like the thing had been in mint condition before her flames got to it.
“Some jokers came up and rammed us. Get this, they weren’t firing bullets. They used some kind of drugs instead.”
